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...Science last week Maurice Landy and coworkers of the Army Medical School in Washington announced that they had used the test with positive results: a resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (pus bacteria) was definitely making more PAB than its sulfa-susceptible twin. They attributed its sulfa-resistance to the PAB -possibly a big step forward in chemotherapy...
...Seems Likely. . . ." Among the first to experiment with penicillin in the U.S. were Drs. Dorothy H. Heilman and Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic. Judging from their work and that of others, penicillin should be highly useful against an impressive array of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes (pus formers), Diplococcus pneumoniae (usual germ of lobar pneumonia, often present in cerebrospinal meningitis and septicemia), gonorrhea germs, Neisseria intracellularis (cerebrospinal meningitis), Streptococcus viridans (heart infection), Actinomyces bovis (lumpy jaw of cattle...
Biologist Ely nurtured a colony of mixed (Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria on sodium phosphate whose phosphorus was radioactive. Next he injected them into the tail veins of rats. Few hours later he analyzed the rats' organs for radioactivity, found it greatest in the liver and the lungs, weakest in the brain. Concluded Ely: "The brain, apparently, has an effective means of preventing bacteria from entering it in large numbers." Further significant conclusions will probably appear as work progresses with this new technique...
...farmers millions of dollars every year. Last week Dr. Charles Conger Palmer of the University of Delaware said that he had found a new kind of streptococcus, never described before, in the udders of heifers with mastitis. Sometimes it flourishes alone, at other times it grows along with Staphylococcus aureus, the germ which causes one form of mastitis in cows, boils and pimples in man. Dr. Palmer and his associates are now trying to discover whether it also infects human beings...
Electrons make impressions on photographic emulsions just as light particles do. Using a magnification factor of 20,400, the Siemens & Halske scientists obtained pictures of the pus germ, Staphylococcus aureus, as big as pennies. In photographs with ordinary high-power microscopes, such germs show up pinhead-size...